Basic Psycology

This quiz is for my basic Psychology class and is probably fraught with numerous spelling issues but I needed to make it for tomorrow so it's no big deal but it is a necessary evil as they say

If you really want to take a psychology test that will challenge anyone at the age of 7 then go ahead but I really don't care about this one. So take it or don't it doesn�t matter to me

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. Who was credited with coming up with the steps of child development?
Sigmund Freud
Piaget
John Locke
Dr. Seuss
4. What connects the two hemispheres in the brain?
Corpus Callosum
Hemisphereectomy
Cerebellum
Elmers Glue
5. A child acts out and receives a spanking from his parents. The spanking is a form of what?
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
Positive Reinforcement
Praise
6. The parents involved in the question I just asked the other team later explain to the child why he was punished. This means the parents display which form of parenting?
Authoritative
Authoritarian
Permissive
Wishy Washy
7. What type of observation is the following set up: Children with candy are often found to be more hyperactive than children without candy.
Correlation
Experimentation
Naturalistic Observation
Common sense
8. In the last question we looked a type of set up. What would the set up need to be considered an experiment?
A control, an independent variable, and a dependent variable
Official Scientists
No outside interaction
Lots of poking
9. What is it called when an animal or person is trained to associate a certain stimulus with a certain response?
Obedience Training
Classical Conditioning
Traditional Conditioning
Brain Washing
10. In the last question we talked about conditioning. In conditioning what is the conditioned stimulus called before the animal has been trained to associate it with the desired response?
Preconditioned Stimulus
Unconditioned Stimulus
Neutral Stimulus
My parents
11. What environmental factor is most responsible for a child's eventual personality?
Parents
Grandparents
Friends
Those darn Chevy Chase movies
12. Which of the following would fit into the nature side of the Nature vs. Nurture debate about whether a child's eventual personality depends on his/her inherited traits or the traits of those around him/her?
Acting like a school clique
Displaying more behviors idiomatic to his/her biological parents than his/her adopted parents
Favorite songs matching those of the current top 10
Loving Pie

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